David Shrigley's "I try to be friendly" exemplifies the artist's characteristic crude draftsmanship and darkly humorous approach to printmaking, combining childlike drawing with unsettling emotional content. The screenprint in colors features hand drawn text and imagery with a varnish overlay that creates varied surface effects across the Somerset paper, reinforcing the tension between the work's crude execution and deliberate technical sophistication. Shrigley's practice, which often addresses themes of anxiety, vulnerability, and social disconnect through deceptively simple visual language, is fully realized in this medium that allows both precision and expressionistic mark making.